Item    7645254                 93/06/03        11:17 
From:  CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET#    Internet Gateway 
Subject: Stone Design Announces Database and Graphic Design
         Services for NEXTSTEP

News

For Immediate Release

For more information, contact:

Katie Graunke Stone Design 505-345-4800 katie@stone.com

Stone Design Announces Database and Graphic Design Services

SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 - Stone Design, a pioneer in the NEXTSTEP market and
maker of DataPhile, Create and 3D Reality, announced at the NeXTWORLD EXPO
this week that it has begun offering database-design and graphic-design
services.

"Using our own, extensively tested database and graphics software, we're
designing custom database solutions and artwork," said Andrew Stone, founder
and CEO of the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based company. "It's a natural
extension of our established business. And because we're a developer, it's
always been our job to get the most out of NEXTSTEP and our apps."

On the information-management side, Stone Design will use DataPhile, a
flatfile database system, to produce custom database applications for NEXTSTEP
sites and users. DataPhile was recently named the "best database application
of 1992" by respondents to a Usenet survey.

"What it comes down to is, we believe in our products enough to start a new
business that depends entirely upon them. Our customer-service staff uses
DataPhile all day, every day, to maintain our customer database and to produce
great-looking invoices, labels and envelopes," said Katie Graunke, who is
coordinating the start-up of Stone's design services. "Likewise, our technical
staff assists customers with every aspect of database design and is skilled in
creating the most intuitive, flexible and attractive database templates I can
imagine on any platform."

Stone Design will use Create, its 2.5-dimensional, full-color drawing package,
and 3D Reality, its 3D modeling and rendering software, to produce everything
from business graphics, ad designs, newsletter and business-document layouts
to 3D product-design sketches and logos. "The best part is, we developed these
products. Technical support for our designers is a desk away," Stone said.

According to Stone, the company assembled an in-house production system to
answer its own need to produce high-quality PostScript images and 3D
renderings for advertisements and other graphics projects. "We're hoping we
can use what we've learned from experience to save our customers some of the
headaches usually associated with print production," he added.

Stone Design is in Booth #408 at the NeXTWORLD EXPO, which is being held in
San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, May 25-27.

Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops
a variety of business-productivity applications for NEXTSTEP.

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Create, DataPhile and 3D Reality are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation.
NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other brand names mentioned
are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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